Overtones

Question 1

Opening Line:

Answer 1

Harriet…Harriet, my other self…my trained self.

Question 2

Harriet: Yes?

Answer 2

I want to talk to you.

Question 3

Harriet: Well?

Answer 3

Oh, Harriet, you are beautiful to-day.

Question 4

H: Am I presentable, Hetty?

Answer 4

Suits me.

Question 5

H: I’ve tried to make the best of the good points

Answer 5

My passions are deeper than yours. I can’t keep the mask on as you do. I’m crude and real, you are my appearance in the world.

Question 6

H: I am what you wish the world to believe you are

Answer 6

You are the part of me that has been trained.

Question 7

H: I am your educated self.

Answer 7

I am the rushing river, you are the ice over the current.

Question 8

H: I am your subtle overtones.

Answer 8

But together we are one woman, the wife of Charles Goodrich.

Question 9

H: There I disagree with you, Hetty. I alone am his wife.

Answer 9

Harriet, how can you say such a thing?

Question 10

H: …If I gave you a chance you would tell him at once that you dislike him

Answer 10

I don’t love him that’s certain

Question 11

H: Considering the amount of scheming it causes me it can be safely said that he is my husband

Answer 11

Oh, if you love him-

Question 12

H: It isn’t my business to love anybody

Answer 12

Then why need you object to calling him my husband?

Question 13

H: I resent your appropriation of a man you is managed only through the cleverness of my artifice

Answer 13

You may be clever enough to deceive him, Harriet, but I am still the one who suffers. I can’t forget he is my husband. I can’t forget that I might have married John Caldwell.

Question 14

H: How foolish of you to remember John, just because we met his wife by chance

Answer 14

That’s what I want to talk to you about. She may be here at any moment. I want to advice you about what to say to her this afternoon

Question 15

H: Sometimes it is all I can do to keep my poise and appear not to be listening to you.

Answer 15

Impress her.

Question 16

H: Hetty, dear is it not my custom to impress people?

Answer 16

I hate her.

Question 17

H: I can’t let her see that

Answer 17

I hate her because she married John

Question 18

H: Only after you refused him.

Answer 18

Was it my fault that I refused him?

Question 19

H: That’s right, blame me.

Answer 19

It was your fault. You told me he was too poor and never would be able to do anything in painting. Look at him now, known in Europe, just returned from eight years in Paris, famous.

Question 20

H: It was too poor a gamble at the time. It was much safer to accept Charles’ money and position.

Answer 20

And then John married Margaret within the year.

Question 21

H: Out of spite

Answer 21

Freckled, gawky looking thing she was, too.

Question 22

H: Europe improved her. She was stunning the other morning

Answer 22

Make her jealous today.

Question 23

H: Shall I be haughty or cordial or caustic or-

Answer 23

Above all else you must let her know that we are rich.

Question 24

H: Oh yes, I do that quite easily now.

Answer 24

You must put it on a bit

Question 25

H: Never fear

Answer 25

Tell her I love my husband

Question 26

H: My husband-

Answer 26

Are you going to quarrel with me?

Question 27

H: I couldn’t get away from you if I tried

Answer 27

You were a stupid fool to make me refuse John. I’ll never forgive you, never…

Question 28

H: I’ll be in no condition to meet her properly this afternoon

Answer 28

I could choke you for robbing me of John!

Question 29

H: Don’t muss me!

Answer 29

You don’t know how you have made me suffer

Question 30

H: It is not my business to have heartaches

Answer 30

You’re bloodless. Nothing but sham, sham while I-

Question 31

H: Be quiet! I can’t let her see that I’ve been fighting with my inner self

Answer 31

And now after all my suffering you say it has cost you more than it has cost me to be married to Charles. But it’s the pain here in my heart, I’ve paid the price, I’ve paid…Charles is not your husband

Question 32

H: He is

Answer 32

HE isn’t

Question 33

H: He is.

Answer 33

He isn’t! I’ll kill you!

Question 34

H: Don’t you’re stronger than I…

Answer 34

Say he’s mine

Question 35

H: He’s ours

Answer 35

There she is now

Question 36

H: Show Mrs. Caldwell up

Answer 36

I’m so excited, my hearts in my mouth

Question 37

H: A nice state you’ve put my nerves into

Answer 37

Don’t let her see you’re nervous

Question 38

H: Quick, put the veil on, or she’ll see you shining through me

Answer 38

Tell her Charles is rich and fascinating-boast of our friends, make her feel she needs us

Question 39

H: I’ll make her ask John to paint us

Answer 39

That’s just my thought-if John paints our portait…

Question 40

H:…We can wear an exquisite gown

Answer 40

And make him fall in love again and-

Question 41

H: Yes…Margaret, I’m so glad to see you

Answer 41

That’s a lie

Question 42

MR: I know, Mr. Goodrich is so successful

Answer 42

Tell her we’re rich

Question 43

H: How well you are looking, Margaret

Answer 43

Yes, you are not. There are circles under your eyes

Question 44

MA: You have hard lines around your lips, are you happy?

Answer 44

Don’t let her see that I’m unhappy

Question 45

MA: I wonder.

Answer 45

Tell her we have an automobile

Question 46

MR: He cannot begin to fill his orders

Answer 46

Tell her we have an automobile

Question 47

MR: I used to drink very sweet coffee in Turkey and ever since I’ve-

Answer 47

I don’t believe you were ever in Turkey

Question 48

MR: John painted several portraits there

Answer 48

Why don’t you stop her bragging and tell her we have an automobile?

Question 49

MR: Thank you

Answer 49

Automobile!

Question 50

MR: What delicious cake!

Answer 50

There’s your chance for the auto!

Question 51

MR: The one you have on, my dear, is very paintable

Answer 51

Don’t let her see you’re anxious to be painted

Question 52

MR: Some people can wear anything with grace

Answer 52

Yes, I am very graceful

Question 53

MR: In fact, I was quite jealous when John was paying you so much attention

Answer 53

She is gloating because I lost him

Question 54

MR: There is a fair chance that John will be added to the list

Answer 54

I know it and I am bitterly jealous of you

Question 55

MR: Yes, we did find life difficult at first, not the luxurious start a girl has who marries wealth

Answer 55

Deny you married Charles for his money

Question 56

MR: But John and I are so congenial in our tastes, that we were impervious to hardship or unhappiness

Answer 56

Do you love each other? Is it really true?

Question 57

MR: Prince River soon discovered John’s genius and introduced him royally to wealthy Parisians who gave him many orders

Answer 57

Are you lying or telling the truth?

Question 58

MR: You must have found social life in New York very interesting, Harriet, after the simplicity of our home town

Answer 58

There’s no need to remind us that our beginning were the same

Question 59

MR: Are you and Mr. Goodrich interested in the same things, too?

Answer 59

NO!

Question 60

MR: How wonderfully life has arranged itself for you. Wealth, position, a happy marriage, every opportunity to enjoy all pleasures, beauty, art-how happy you must be.

Answer 60

Don’t call me happy! I’ve never been happy since I gave up John. All these years without him, a future without him, no-no-I shall win him back-away from you, away from you-

Question 61

MR: He gets as much as four thousand dollars now

Answer 61

Don’t pay that much

Question 62

MR: Otherwise you might arrive while he has a sitter, and John refuses to le me disturb him then

Answer 62

Make her ask for an order

Question 63

MR: Oh, dear me, no. He is only praised by the masses. He is accepted not at all by artists themselves.

Answer 63

Must I really pay full price?

Question 64

MR: Why don’t you let Le Grange paint you, if you trust him?

Answer 64

She doesn’t seem anxious to have John do it

Question 65

MA: Help us! Help us! Save us!

Answer 65

Don’t seem too eager

Question 66

MR: John might be induced to to you for a little below his usual price considering you used to be such good friends.

Answer 66

Hurrah!

Question 67

MR: He sets his value on his work and thinks it beneath him to discuss price

Answer 67

You needn’t try to make us feel small

Question 68

MA: Finish what I don’t want to say

Answer 68

Help her out

Question 69

H: No doubt I-

Answer 69

Be patronizing

Question 70

MA: We can go now

Answer 70

Don’t let her think she is doing us a favor

Question 71

MA: Run home and tell John! Hurry, hurry!

Answer 71

You managed the order very neatly. She does’t suspect that you wanted it

Question 72

MA: I must be going or you will have me completely under your spell

Answer 72

Yes, do go. I have to dress for dinner.

Question 73

MR: I find you so stimulating.

Answer 73

I hate you!

Question 74

MR: How delightful it is to know you again

Answer 74

I am going to make you and your husband suffer

Question 75

MR: He will be so happy to receive them

Answer 75

I can hardly wait to talk to him again

Question 76

MR: I’ll speak to John about it as soon as I can and tell you when to come.

Answer 76

I love him-I love him!

Question 77

MA: He’s starving, I’m starving

Answer 77

I’m going to take him away from you

Question 78

MA: I want your money and your influence

Answer 78

I’m going to rob you, ROB YOU!